A cat lovers dream, Cats on Cats is a beginner friendly look at simple quilt techniques and chain piecing. Featuring fabric from Kitty Garden and Jenny's Basics by Jenny Ronen.

Dinosaur Quilt, Child (click here to open the pattern in a new window)

My family and I were at a local restaurant recently and the topic of conversation turned to my rag quilting. I was beginning to try some different things and my children were offering up their ideas of what I should do next. I had just completed a recycled/upcycled blue jean baby quilt and I was ready for my next challenge. My son, Tyler, suggested I make the American flag rag quilt which I filed away for a summertime project. My daughter, Hayley, suggested I try a simple design, like what's on Charlie Brown's shirt. That captured my imagination and I couldn't think of anything else. All three of us took turns sketching it out on napkins: Finally, I had my pattern. It looked simple enough. Yellow for the top and black for the zigzag. I chose a buttercup yellow cotton and unfortunately I didn't buy enough. Of course they were out of buttercup at my local fabric store and also at the three others that I went to. The 4th luckily had the dye lot of buttercup that matched mine so I was able to finish the quilt. I layered yellow fleece on the inside to make it thick and warm. That's where the second complication set in. I didn't want yellow to show in the black zigzag so I cut black fleece and positioned it next to the yellow in two triangles. Then on the advice of my son, I used black thread on all the black squares and yellow thread on all the yellow squares. I stitched the traditional X through all the squares even the two rows of half black, half yellow. It took a long time to get it just right. There was one spot that no matter how many times I took out the stitches and re-sewed I still got a bit of black thread showing on the one side of the yellow. Now it was ready to be cut. I was so hoping that it would turn out the way I had envisioned. Here is a view of the quilt before it was cut: And here is the fluffy side: I think it turned out beautifully. I heard that a choir director in CA received this quilt as a gift from cast members who had all signed the quilt. They presented it to him after the final performance of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown.

This fun monster quilt was made as a group project with our local 4-H club!

I am three days past my due date. Jadon is free to come when he's ready, but my to-do list is getting pretty short lately! My summer school teaching position ended about a month ago. The baby room is finally all set up. I have several meals ready in the freezer for after Jadon is born. The apartment has never been cleaner. With all this extra time, I've had the opportunity to tackle a few little projects. Yesterday, I finished a baby blanket made out of my husband's ripped jeans and a few of his old button-down shirts. Here's the finished product: A much larger version of this blanket currently covers my own bed. I had to save nearly 20 pairs of my family's jeans in high school in order to have enough material for a queen size. When it was finished, I decided to use the extra pieces to make a little pillow. When guests see our bedroom, many ask how the blanket and pillow were made. So, here's a little tutorial for a simple 4x4 design: Use a circular object to trace and cut several pairs of jeans into standard size circles. I used a small bowl. The circles you see here are about five inches in diameter. Cut a piece of paper into a square that inscribes the circles. Use the paper to trace squares on the inside of your jeans. Take two of the circles and line them up back-to-back. The squares should be facing out, and the sides and corners of the squares should be lined up. Sew along one of the square sides. You will be left with little flaps of extra fabric. Depending on how large you want your project to be, you will continue to sew the sides of the squares together until you have several long chains of circles. Now you're ready to sew the long strips together. Use the remaining lines of the squares to carefully line up your pieces and sew the chains of circles to each other. This will create a lovely little flower design with the extra flaps of fabric. Now cut little squares from some other fabric. I used my husband's old shirts. The squares should be about the same size as the ones you drew on the jean circles. However, I have found that cutting them slightly smaller works just fine, too. These little squares are going to lay inside the extra flaps of jeans fabric (are you starting to visualize the finished product?). Sewing these flaps down takes a few steps. First, you are going to anchor down the flaps and square fabric with long, straight seams. Just make sure that you carefully hold down the flaps as you're sewing so that all of the fabric lays flat. Continue to sew straight lines for all the vertical strips. Repeat the same process going horizontally. With all your squares and flaps anchored down, it's on to zig-zagging! Starting at one end of your project, you will follow the edges of the flaps with a zig-zag stitch. The finished zig-zag will look like this. Repeat the zig-zagging for all the flap edges, both vertically and horizontally. Here's one side of the finished zig-zags. And here's the other side. Notice how the zig-zag stitching is not perfectly symmetrical. Some of my zig-zags are more evenly spaced than others, too. That's the charm of homemade! And that's your finished project! If you're wondering how many circles you'll need to create these project, here's how many I used: Baby blanket: 11 by 13 (143 total jeans circles) Queen size blanket: 25 by 25 (625 jeans circles - start saving jeans now!) Pillow (one side): 5 by 5 (25 jeans circles) Now if Jadon would just make up his mind on a birthday, we could put this blanket to use!

Designed just for big dreamers and adventurous kids, our Peruvian Travel Organic Sunrise Bedding is filled with rich pastels inspired by landscapes of the Andes Mountains. Elevated hues and metallic embroidery details create a hilly landscape with a lovely sunset, while organic cotton fabric envelopes little ones in cozy softness.Quilt with sunrise and hilly landscape in pastel hues. Metallic embroidery details. Shell: 100% organic cotton. Fill: cotton and organic cotton. Quilted texture. Machine washable. Made in India.

Sew Blue Jean Quilt Blanket Craft Project is a great way to recycle your old blue jeans into a second functional item on your homestead. On a freezing cold winter night, a heavy warm quilt will be welcome. (Sandy In Iowa) We like quilts. They are soft and warm and…

SUPPLIES & TOOLS: • 1 yd each of 4 fleece prints • 2 yards fleece for back • Basic sewing supplies • Sewing machine • Sharp scissors DIRECTI...

This is the Quilt I recently finished for my son David's Birthday. It's a good thing he is patient. I started this quilt a while ago OK I admit it was a few years ago. I have had a few hangups along the way. Trying to quilt it myself wasn't working for me, it was just too big for me to swing it around on my sewing machine. I was hoping to quilt around the maze so there was no hope to do that on my machine. I ended up getting a lady to long arm quilt it for me she did an amazing job and I'm very happy with the results. After the quilting was done, I needed to add a binding. That took me a while, trying to decide on the way I want to finish the binding, also what fabric to use. I was thinking I would use the green that I used in the main quilt, but I didn't have enough of it. So I spend forever looking for it or a match to the green or grey. I was never happy with what I was seeing. I also came to the conclusion that I didn't want a binding around the outside of the quilt as it would take away from the maze effect. I wanted it to be when you looked at the quilt you knew it was a maze. I ended up finding the knife edge binding. I love the look of it as it doesn't take away from the green hedges at the edge. I was able to find the instruction how to do it on the internet. This is a 72" by 96" quit; bigger than I thought I should make it when I first started making the blocks. But once I got going on the animals I couldn't stop. The pattern I used for the paper pieced animal was Animal Kingdom by Margaret Rolfe. I love this CD-ROM pattern as you can make the animals in many different sizes. I made them different sizes and then enlarged some of them even move by adding the boarder. Once I got the animals done then it was time to make up the maze. I laid out the animals the way I wanted them to be on the maze. ( As you can see some of the animals had a little extra boarders on them, too fussy so I removed them.) Once everything was where I wanted then we found a computer program that would design mazes we plugged in the width of the strips I wanted a finish measurement of 2" thick. It designed the maze around the block measurements we had entered. Once the maze was the way I wanted it with the animals placed in the pattern. I printed it out and went to work with a highlighter to decide how long the strips would be that I would work with. I wanted it to be the longest pieces possible so the line would keep a straight look. There are very few small pieces on this quilt my smallest would be 2 1/2" by 2 1/2" the biggest green piece was 2 1/2" by 32" and the grey biggest piece was 28". I worked in section across the quilt once I finish across the width of the quilt then I work on adding those sections together, in the picture you can see that I have already added two sections together. I had to wait to add the bottom left corner piece in until the next section I did this throughout the quilt so you cannot see how they were joined together as I didn't want to have visible joining lines showing. You can't see any visible joining lines in this picture and binding it underneath so it doesn't detracted the maze. The trick when picking fabric for the maze quilt is not to use fabric that has a directional pattern to it. The sheep is one of my favourites as I used the extra fabric from making my wedding dress. I didn't have an embroidery machine so I did the writing free hand quilting. The chicks are just cute in the middle of the quilt. Trying to find their way to the Mother Hen. The Cheetah because of his movable tail. This was such a fun quilt to work on, I love to come up with ideas for quilts that I haven't seen before. It was so much fun piecing it together. The paper pieces was fun as well, and I smile when I see it on my sons bed as it brings back so many good memories about working on it. Even if it was a few more years then I had planned. Oh I just about forgot there were two mistakes in this quilt when it was done up on the computer I didn't notice them until I had finished piecing the whole quilt top together. I picked out the wrong colour strip on it and resewed it, as I couldn't leave that one mistake in as I would always see that it was wrong, and it would drive me nuts. You cannot see where I ripped it out and then resewed it which I'm very happy about. If you compare the finished quilt and the smaller sections that I have together you can see the mistake before and after. The other mistake, I truthfully can't find it anymore and I'm not planning on looking for it as it is best for me to just forget about it. UPDATE: That was what I was going to do, forget about it, but my Dear Husband just pointed it out to me. When I asked him if he remembered that I fixed the other mistake. I made the mistake of showing him the picture of before and after. Oh have I mentioned he an Engineer. lol

I love flannel receiving blankets! They used to be my go-to baby gift before I became obsessed discovered quilting. This one was for a Baby Shower I was going to and the new parents decided they didn't want to know if it was a boy or a girl until it was born. I had no idea it would be so difficult

So, I've been wanting to do a "ticker tape" piece lately because I've got such pretty tiny scraps and what can you make with fabric pieces smaller than half an inch... at Easter time? Well, a scrappy bunny, duh! Or how about two bunnies? One of the bunnies is for...

Hallo Ihr Lieben, endlich endlich endlich kann ich Euch diese Decke zeigen. Das letzte halbe Jahr habe ich immer wieder daran genäht und ich bin stolz darauf, dass ich es wirklich durchgezogen habe und sie nun fertig ist. Geplant war das gute Stück zur Geburt meiner Nichte. Das habe ich bei weitem nicht geschafft. Sie kam kurz vor Weihnachten letzten Jahres zur Welt. Ich bin so schlecht im Zeit schätzen. Grundsätzlich kann man da bei mir immer 3 x die Zeit rechnen, die ich mir vornehme. Aber das wichtigste ist, dass ich die Decke fertig genäht habe. Zu Anfang stand natürlich erst einmal mega viel Zuschneidearbeit, denn jedes Teil der Giraffe musste natürlich extra zugeschnitten werden. Dann erst ging es ans Nähen. Das ging aber relativ schnell vorwärts. In nur knapp drei Wochen waren alle Teile zusammengenäht. Und am 26.01.2018 war das Top dann auch schon fertig. Hier hatte ich dann den Stoff für die Rückseite probeweise untergelegt. Das war eine wirklich enge Kiste, da das Top eine Höhe und Breite von ca. 145 cm hat. Standardmäßig sind die meisten Stoffe ja nur 145 breit, dieser hier war also nur minimal größer. Und dann lag das Top eine Weile in der Ecke. Die Patchwork Näherinnen unter Euch kennen das bestimmt. Der erste Druck fällt ab, ist ja schon so richtig viel geschafft. Nein, weit gefehlt. Ehrlich gesagt ist nur etwa die Hälfte der Decke erledigt, zumindest zeitlich gesehen. Es fehlt noch das Zusammenstecken der Füllung und der Rückseite, das Quilten und das Binding. Aber ich hab mir bestimmt gut vier Wochen Zeit gelassen bis ich die einzelnen Lagen der Decke endlich zusammengesetzt hatte. Auf Grund meiner Erfahrungen mit dem Stecken bei meinen ersten Patchworkdecken - ich komme damit nicht gut klar, da ständig alles verrutscht - habe ich mich entschieden die Teile mit Sprühkleber zu verbinden. Das hat wirklich richtig super geklappt, nichts kann mehr verrutschen. Aber auch danach habe ich die Decke - mittlerweile konnte man es ja so nennen - wieder liegen lassen. Zu groß war der Respekt vorm Quilten. Ich wollte unbedingt Freihandquilten. Ostern rückte näher, dieses Ziel zum Verschenken hatte ich mir gesteckt, also habe ich mir ein Herz gefasst und endlich mit dem Quilten angefangen. Zunächst habe ich mit dem Obertransportfuß die Silhouette jeder einzelnen Giraffe abgesteppt. Und erst danach habe ich mich ans Freihandquilten gewagt. Klar habe ich ein bisschen geübt vorher, aber nicht viel. Ich riskiere es oft lieber gleich. Zur Not muss ich halt auftrennen. Es sollten Wellenlinien werden, die relativ gleichmäßig von oben nach unten verlaufen. Das lief anfangs sehr sehr schlecht. Ich hatte große Mühe die große Decke zu führen. Ich habe sehr trockene Hände und somit konnte ich sie schlecht fassen. Da habe ich mich an ein Bild erinnert, dass ich bei Ines von Nähzimmerplaudereien mal auf Instagram gesehen hatte. Sie verwendete zum Quilten Handschuhe. Gut, das kann ich ja mal probieren. Also habe ich aus dem Putzschrank ein paar Einmalhandschuhe rausgekramt und es nochmal probiert. Und siehe da es lief viel, viel besser. Ich hatte richtig Grip die Decke unter der Maschine hindurchzuführen. Ja, es machte sogar fast ein bisschen Spaß - nein nicht nur ein bisschen, das war richtig toll. Gut, ich gebe zu wirklich gut ist es nicht geworden. Optimalerweise sollte ja jeder Stich gleich lang sein. Weiß der Teufel wie das funktioniert, ich habe es nicht hinbekommen. Selbst meine Wellen waren oftmals nicht wellig, sondern eher zackig, aber wer sieht schon so genau hin. Ich bin zufrieden mit meinem ersten Freihandquilt. Und hier seht ihr sogar meinen Pfusch in Großaufnahme. Nun endlich war die Decke gequiltet. Das war für mich ein großer Triumph, da ich meinen Angstgegner Freihandquilten bei diesem Projekt besiegt hatte. Nun fehlte nur noch der entspannende Teil des Quilts, das Binding. Ich habe mich für ein doppellagiges Binding entschieden und klar muss es auf der Rückseite mit einem Matrazenstich genäht sein. Nichts ist schlimmer für mich als hier eine sichtbare Naht, das passt einfach nicht. Und nichts gibt der Decke einen besseren letzten Schliff als noch ein paar Stunden das Binding von Hand anzunähen. Man schließt dann auch innerlich mit dem Projekt ab. Versteht ihr was ich meine? Hier noch ein Bild der gesamten Rückseite. Ich finde den Fleecestoff ja so passend zum Top und bin echt glücklich, dass ich den gefunden hatte. Und hier sind die Giraffes in a row nochmals in ihrer gesamten Schönheit. Im Schnitt ist übrigens auch nur eine kleine Variante mit vier Giraffen aufgeführt. Wer also nicht gleich die große Version nähen möchte kann auch das machen. Die Anleitung und der Zuschnittplan für die Decke sind super gemacht und leicht verständlich, da lohnt sich der hohe Preis dafür wirklich. Und wer bis hierher gelesen hat, dem wünsche ich jetzt noch eine wunderschöne Woche. Eure Tina Schnitt: Giraffes in a row von SewFreshQuilts Stoff: Baumwollleinen, Volumenvlies und Fleece von Stoff & Stil Verlinkung: Modern Patch Monday, creadienstag, HoT, DienstagsDinge

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I finished the rainbow hexagon quilt a week or so ago. You can read more about piecing this quilt here and here. It was quilted by my LQS. Kim made a template using the Hex-N-More ruler, so the quilting inside the hexagon would match exactly. She quilted 1/4" from the seam around the inside of each hexagon shape, and then quilted on the lines she had marked from the hexagon template. (I think the template was approximately a 3" hexagon.) She used a medium grey thread that looks great with every color on the quilt. I used Cuzco (by Kate Spain for Moda) on the back of the quilt, and I thought Indigo Sanctuary (the center, blue peacock) fabric was perfect for the binding. I am very happy with the way this quilt turned out & it is now on display at my LQS! Quilt Stats: Fabric: Quilt top - solid fabrics (mixture of Kona & Moda) Batting - Warm & Natural Backing - 5 prints from the Cuzco line (by Kate Spain for Moda) Binding - Indigo Sanctuary print from Cuzco Pattern: used Hex-N-More ruler to make 6" half hexagons Dimensions: 60" x 80" Started quilt top: November 19th, 2012 Finished quilt top: December 5th, 2012 Quilted: on long arm at Quilt-N-Kaboodle by one of the co-owners, Kim Barrett Made for: display at Quilt-N-Kaboodle -V Linking up to Finish It Up Friday hosted by Amanda Jean @ Crazy Mom Quilts. Linking up to Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday. Linking up to Confessions Of A Fabric Addict. Linking up to Richard & Tanya Quilts.

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4 years ago a girl came up to me at a church conference and asked me "are you by chance Cluck Cluck Sew?". Now she's become my best friend and I'm so glad this blog helped me meet her! Plus our husbands became instant friends...how lucky is that?! She's having a baby girl next...Read More

I just wanted to write a quick post to say thank you to all of you who volunteered to test my Colorblock Quilt pattern! I tried to find a ...

Cloud Baby Free Sewing Pattern & Tutorial. Make your own cute Cloud Baby Softie by Miss Daisy Patterns.

I told myself I'd never make another puff quilt. Yet, here I am.....sharing about my second puff quilt. (haha!) Don't get me wrong, I loved the process of making my first puff quilt, which you can read about here, but I honestly thought that we'd never have the need for another one. Well, over the last year, I slowly forgot how much work they are (haha) and I started getting the itch to do the process all over again! Peter uses my original puff quilt alllllll the time. He loves the weight of it, but his only complaint was that it wasn't long enough. I made the

Chicken quilt by Emily of Quiltylove.com. Find the link to the free tutorial to make your own chicken quilt. Scrappy chicken quilt pattern.

I’ve been working on organizing and setting up the new play room this week. When we first moved down south, the felt board was put away in the closet while we got settled. Yesterday I pulled it out and the kids LOVED it. Bonus of shuffling toys through…they forget about stuff and then fall in love all over again! I would catch each of them over by it playing silently…it was hours of play time. amazing. I know what my next DIY project is going to be… definitely adding more pieces to our Felt Board! I thought it would be fun to walk down memory lane and share past pieces I’ve made for it. Hope it gives you some inspiration if you are making one! Cupcake Felt Board. Sophia loved decorating all the cupcakes! Felt Board Town. This was my original felt board post..sharing all the sets I made! Can’t believe how little Sophia and Sienna are in these photos!! *tear* It brought back memories looking over and seeing them playing it together again, but as big girls! Ice cream Felt Board Set. This set is dangerous. I want to eat all the ice cream in my freezer when I see this. …

Learn how to make these quilting ideas with free pattern for quilts that are creative but easy to make. Step by step sewing tutorials and quilt patterns.

FLOATS quilt pattern by Natalie Barnes, beyond the reef Multiple sizes 8pp full instructions for multiple sizes. Lovingly packaged and shipped by me from the Studio. Free shipping with $35 or more All beyondthereef patterns are copyright designs; for personal use only.

I've collected over 20 of my favorite free baby quilt patterns in one post! They are all from amzing designers, so you're sure to find one you love.

A barbie quilt made from scraps. The perfect size to fit Barbies bed.

Giddy Up - Pantograph / E2E © 2015 Patricia E. Ritter and OESD PAPER: A single row is 10.75 inches - printed with one row - 144 inches long DIGITAL (computerized quilting systems): Zip file includes: BQM, CQP, DXF, HQF, IQP, PAT, QLI, SSD, TXT, WMF and 4QB or PLT. Most designs also include a DWG, GPF, PDF, PNG and SVG. SELF PRINT: A single row is 12.25 inches - printed with one row. EMBROIDERY (computerized embroidery systems): Zip file includes: ART, DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, PCM, PCS, PDF, PES, VIP, VP3 and XXX Sizes included: Size 1: 151.8 mm x 120.8 mm (5.98 Inches x 4.76 Inches) Size 2: 182.0 mm x 144.8 mm (7.17 Inches x 5.70 Inches) Size 3: 215.6 mm x 171.6 mm (8.49 Inches x 6.76 Inches) Size 4: 279.4 mm x 222.2 mm (11.00 Inches x 8.75 Inches) Size 5: 375.2 mm x 298.6 mm (14.77 Inches x 11.76 Inches)

This simple diy rag quilt tutorial will teach you how to make one in no time! Rag quilts are fun to make and are great gifts!

Simple piecing with lots of contrast makes for an eye-catching quilt! Use fat quarters or even scraps for the bright fabrics, and watch your masterpiece come to life. Video tutorial for this quilt is available now! Fabrics featured: Homeward by Natalie Barnes Sizes included in the pattern:  Baby - 36" x 42"  Throw - 60" x 72" Twin - 72" x 96" This PDF pattern is available for instant download now.  Paper pattern is available here